Act/React: Interactive Installation Art
October 4–January 11, 2009
Baker/Rowland Exhibition Galleries
The Museum is hosting, exclusively, the first extensive exhibition in an art museum of intuitive, digitally developed interactive art. Imagine entering the galleries and your movements trigger “brushstrokes” to create painterly patterns on the wall, colorful forms to reconfigure in your wake, or sounds to emit from seemingly inanimate objects. Step inside and experience these extraordinary immersive environments by six pioneers of responsive art.
“Interactive cinema” and other projects involving computer keyboards and similar mechanical interfaces have been explored throughout the history of installation art. This exhibition presents a sampling of what is a growing body of artwork, where the interactivity involved is non-technical and performed with the entire body of the viewer. These ten installations invite you to move through space, to explore how your motions affect the images, lights, or sounds around you. Go ahead—ACT on your curiosity.
If you missed Zachary Cahill’s recent show, you can now view his work at his website: www.zacharycahill.com
The Project for the New American Century Presents:
Zach Cahill (MFA 2007)
“The Best Laid Plans”–Recent Works
Where: DOVA Temporary 5228 S. Harper Ave
When: July 25 thru August 9, 2008
Gallery hours: Wed-Sat 12-5pm
Opening Reception: July 25, 6-9pm
More: zacharycahill.com
Call for Papers: 3rd Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS)
DHCS Colloquium, November 1st – 3rd, 2008
Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2008
The goal of the annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. In 2006, the first DHCS Colloquium examined the challenges and opportunities posed by the “million books” digitization projects. The second DHCS Colloquium in 2007 focused on searching and querying as both tools and methodologies.
The theme of the third Chicago DHCS Colloquium is “Making Sense” – an exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the transition of the digital and the analog. We encourage submissions from scholars and researchers on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the Humanities and Computer Science.
Sponsored by the Humanities Division, the Computation Institute, NSIT Academic Technologies and the University Library at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and the College of Science and Letters at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Location:
The University of Chicago
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Click here for more.
The New Media Workshop
presents
Professor Alan Liu (Department of English, UC Santa Barbara),
on The Agrippa Process: ‘Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)’ in the Age of Web 2.0
Jim Hodge (Ph.D. Student, Department of English, U of C), will respond.
As background reading on Professor Liu’s work, participants are encouraged to read his article “Transcendental Data: Towards a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse,” attached here.
Date: Monday, May 19, 2008
Place: Cobb 310
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Refreshments will be served.
If in need of assistance, please contact Lisa Zaher in advance.
On April 23, 2008, W. J. T. Mitchell and Jacques Rancière discussed the Future of the Image at Columbia University.
For an overview of the event, from the Blog Site Page 291, click here.
Please join the New Media Workshop for a presentation by
Zach Cahill, MFA ‘07 (U of C)
The Project for the New American Century:
Diagrams, Vanishing Mediators and the Principle of In-existence
Date: Friday, May 2, 2008
Place: CWAC 156
Time: 10:30-12:30
In preparation for this meeting, please consult the following texts/sites:
The Project for the New American Century
Excerpt from Badiou’s Being and Event
Badiou on the Inexistent
Please join the New Media Workshop for its extended discussion of the works of Jacques Rancière,
with critical responses by:
W. J. T. Mitchell, Zach Cahill (DOVA, MFA ‘07), Kris Cohen (Art History), and Jim Hodge (English). Moderated by Michelle Menzies (English).
Date: Friday, April 18, 2008
Time: 3:30 – 5:30pm
Location: CWAC 156
For this meeting, we will be focussing on The Future of the Image. Several copies of the book are still available at the Co-op Bookstore.
Persons in need of assistance, please contact Lisa Zaher in advance.
The New Media Workshop
proudly presents:
Date: Monday, March 10, 2008
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Location: Cobb 310
Download Paper
Refreshments will be served.
Persons with a disability, who believe they may need assistance, please email Lisa Zaher in advance at lmz@uchicago.edu.